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I’ve seen this 1923 map on a number of websites lately. It seems to have been posted a couple of years ago at Seif’s blog.

One of the most striking differences is the density. Back in the 1920’s, Beirut seemed to be more of a wide geographic area composed of different towns and districts.

But today the city is one constant metropolitan area:

source 

I suppose a lot of the lamenting of the “good old days” is based on the fact that there was more open spaces in the city and less people/problems to worry about.

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Habib Battah is an investigative journalist and founder of the news site beirutreport.com. Battah has covered Lebanon and the Middle East for over 15 years and teaches journalism and media studies at the American University of Beirut. He is a contributor to Monocle, The Guardian, BBC World, Al Jazeera and others, a former fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University and two-time recipient of the Samir Kassir Press Freedom Award. Battah's investigative work was recently recognized for outstanding local reporting by the Columbia University Oakes Award for Environmental Reporting. Battah earned a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.A. in Near East Studies and Journalism from New York University.

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